Talbot County GaArchives News.....Uncle "Gus" O'Neal May 2 1907
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The Talbotton New Era

The Talbotton New Era
Thursday, May 2, 1907
Page 6

Uncle “Gus” O’Neal, who resides four miles west of town, is one of the most 
vigorous men of his age in the county.  He is nearly seventy-five and 
cultivates a small farm, doing all that work himself.  He says he has been a 
plowman for fifty-nine years.  He never has been seriously ill or even had an 
attack of headache.  Mr. O’Neal is very fond of chicken pie, can eat as much of 
this toothsome viand as any man in Georgia, and even the sight of one makes his 
eyes to twinkle as brightly as if he were just sixteen.

(Another article about Mr. O’Neal on the same page)

Uncle Gus O’Neal, who lives four miles west of Talbotton, was among the old 
veterans to attend the Memorial exercises in Talbotton last Friday.  He is 
seventy-five years of age, strong and in excellent health.  He plows regularly, 
and does as much work as any hand on his place.  He walked home from Talbotton 
after the exercises Friday afternoon.  Someone asked him if he did not think 
the walk would be too much for him.  He answered “Four miles is no walk for 
me.  I could walk from here to Columbus now without any trouble.  At the close 
of the war, I walked six hundred miles to my home and passed right through 
Talbotton.  I would not like to take a six hundred mile walk now, but I am 
still strong and vigorous and could walk a hundred miles now.”



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